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This web site simulates a Trade Show. Each of 200 plus MEMBER firms
get a "virtual booth", plus centralized services and booth options to attract
visitors and exchange contact data. Services often involve
access rights and preferences, so Boothnet is secure. Visitors
must register as USERS, and log in.
Each booth is managed by an administrator working for its MEMBER firm.
Such a USER gets extra "manager" rights and services which vary with the
options the MEMBER has purchased. Below, we discuss services for
typical USERS, and especially those for booth managers. For
guided demo tours or more details on page sets, tags, or services planned,
contact Dan@Lexikos.com |
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ShadowCats
supplies a powerful page production engine using servlets and
templates to define page views. Each template holds special comments
("tags") which get replaced at run time with computed
text. Such text is based on booth specific properties, USER
data, MEMBER data, etc..
This approach aids several options. Log in as "guest" to see them.
The default booth (002) is a prototype from which "other booths" inherit missing
page bodies. It also exposes aspects of its own construction and a working sitemap.
(Warning: feature-set differences between suites and booths are not yet final.)
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ShowCase
SIGs aid booth managers, and focus on Boothnet itself - its operation,
promotion, training aids, etc. Private SIGs aid other USERS and focus on
MEMBER-specific PROJECTS, RESOURCES, etc. Tags on pages let its manager
present such data as desired, and reward registered USERS with special discounts, services, etc.
The rules are easily adapted by MEMBERS for many purposes. |
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Boothnet uses central data on USERS and MEMBERS, plus MEMBER-specific
record sets controlled by these custom-branded suites. They aid managers
and other "special" registered vistors, and may offer them special pages
and tags for advanced RESOURCES (J2EE aids, SOAP services, etc)
sold by that MEMBER.
MEMBERS grant their booth managers power to control such options, to
migrate related record sets to or from remote MEMBER data bases, and/or
to arrange for their use or mutation by various tags. Such
options make Boothnet a general and efficient way to project and capture
useful business information for each MEMBER, and to offer personalized
services to the staff, customers or prospects who register to receive them
at that MEMBER's booth. |